Brendan Venter forced to apologise for comments about referee

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Brendan Venter apologised “unreservedly” yesterday to a Guinness Premiership referee who had been insulted by comments made by the Saracens director of rugby.

Venter was required to make his public statement to David Rose, who felt that his integrity had been undermined, as part of his punishment after being found guilty yesterday by an RFU disciplinary panel of conduct prejudicial to the interests of the union.

The charge, which Venter had denied, related to comments he made in a BBC Radio interview after his club lost to Leicester at Vicarage Road on January 2. The former South Africa international was